Really great movie?

Question

with a really bad ending!?

Answer 1

The Departed

Answer 2

When you say Really great movie, I think: ROCKY II. But he wins at the end. He does not win the fight in the original Rocky (Oscar for Best Picture), nor does he win in Rocky Balboa, both great movies.

"Mystic River" was AWESOME! Plus. . . You get to see Blondie's (aka Clint Eastwood who directed and produced) "old friend," Tuco (Eli Wallach from "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" and "Godfather III" who played the gunshop owner-I would recognize him ANYWHERE!!!). I just would not see Mystic in the theaters because I think Sean Penn, while a good actor, is an idiot in his personal life.

"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" ends with a shootout and a hanging in a graveyard as "old friends" splitup over a Confederate cache of gold coins. You learn two life lessons:

1.) "There are two kinds of spurs, my friend: Those who come in through the door and those who come in through the window," and

2.) "There are two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."

I personally am looking for a movie called "The Inlaws" starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. Not the trash made by Michael Douglas and the other fellow.

Another great movie is "The Brinks Job." Peter Falk and Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino, and Warren Oates mastermind the Brinks robbery in the 1940s. All go to jail for separate crimes, but the robbery was never solved and the robbers served their jail sentences and retired comfortably.

Consider two other great movies with bad endings, both by Blondie (The man with no name): "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby."

You might also consider "Greedy" starring Kirk Douglas and Michael J. Fox, costarring Phil Hartman, Nancy Travis, Ed Begley, Jr. This also has a "bad" ending that leaves you no sympathy whatsoever for the family patriarch played by Kirk Douglas.

Answer 3

I think a prime example of a great movie with a suck-a(s)(s) ending is HAUTE TENSION (or HIGH TENSION, as it was titled when it came out on DVD in the US).

The first two acts of this movie were so tense, I thought I was going to scream the first time I watched it. I was ready to give this movie rave reviews as being one of the best horror movies I'd seen in a long time. Almost literally had me on the edge of my seat.

Then, in the last 20 minutes, the whole thing plummeted into a mess, ruining an otherwise brilliant horror flick.
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Answer 4

A Clockwork Orange

Answer 5

"Mystic River."

I thought it was the best movie I had seen in over a decade... until the ending all but ruined the entire thing. What a big cop out ending.

Answer 6

Donnie Brasco

Answer 7

Limelight. West Side Story. Doctor Zhivago.

Answer 8

Fatal Attraction with Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. Though I don't consider it a *great* movie, it was an above average psychological thriller, until the slasher, tacked-on ending.

Answer 9

The Forgotten.

Answer 10

Vacancy and Premonition